New Feature: Scapegoat/Panacea of the Week!
Scapegoat: Barack Obama (trampling on the Constitution; oppressing the white working class man) Panacea: Gold Standard (notice the worthless dollars on the ground) Discuss! (The Forgotten Man by Jon...
View ArticleDemocracy And Its Discontents.
At the moment Rick Santorum was surging again (I know it’s getting old, but we might as well play it out for this electoral cycle), the federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit confirmed a lower...
View ArticleCourtside.
Here’s today’s TimesCast, about the individual mandate (sorry for non-embededness; the Times is particular about its material). Not that anyone here doesn’t know all of this already – it’s just worth...
View ArticleAnd After All Those Nice Things Newt Said About The Governor During The Primary.
Shep Smith continues to be the only thing worth watching on Fox. I know that American disaffection from politics goes all the way back to the 1790s. But I think it’s cyclical – every few decades the...
View ArticleFilibuster Reform, R.I.P.
In recent news, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have agreed to kill filibuster reform: The deal Reid struck with McConnell doesn’t end the filibuster against the motion to proceed. Rather, it creates...
View ArticleThe Echo Chamber.
The usually unflappable President Obama was pissed off today, after the United States Senate failed to pass any legislation reforming American gun laws despite overwhelming public support for such...
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